Host your own murder mystery party with ease! With these 5 top-rated murder mystery game kits for adults.
These dinner party games cover a variety of themes and eras. All available from Amazon US and UK. With boxed kits, complete with full instructions. As well as helpful tips. For 6 to 8 people.
For more murder mystery game kits with a decade theme, see my posts listed below.
5 Top Murder Mystery Game Kits for Adults
1. Pasta, Passion and Pistols
From: University Games.
Description: Everyone’s a suspect when murder is on the menu. The aroma of home cooked pasta is drifting from New York City’s most popular Italian eatery, but something else is heating up the kitchen as the restaurateur has been shot. Family and friends will gather to pay their respects, but one of the guests won’t be shedding any tears. This mystery dinner party game for adults includes recipes, a shopping list, invitations plus a tasty murder mystery to solve. Each player dresses up and plays the role of a suspect to the murder. [Source: Amazon]
Pasta, Passion and Pistols – Game Details
This murder mystery dinner party game includes:
- A Complete Murder Mystery Party Kit. For ages 18 and up.
- For 6-8 players.
- With everything you will need to solve a murder during an evening with friends.
- Including a Party Planner with tips on recipes, menu suggestions and decor.
- Plus character booklets for all suspects. With their roles and background information.
- And 8 place cards, 8 party invitations, 6 secret clues and a CD with an intro, summary of events and the solution to the crime!
*Available to buy from UK Amazon or US Amazon.
You might also like: Serial Killer Game: Independence Day Murder Mystery by A Killing Affair.
2. A Taste for Wine and Murder
From: University Games.
Description: Everyone’s a suspect when murder is on the menu. It’s a tour of California Wine Country with its picturesque wineries. The annual wine-tasting festival is in full swing… But then the body of local vineyard owner, Barry Underwood, is found hidden beneath his wine cellar. [Source: Amazon]
A Taste for Wine and Murder – Game Details
This murder mystery dinner party game includes:
- A winery themed murder mystery dinner game in a box!
- For 6-8 players 18 and over.
- With everything you need to host an unforgettable dinner party!
- Including recipes, place cards, music tips and a well-thought out murder.
- A booklet for each suspects detailing their roles and background.
- The mystery unfolds along with your evening.
- With a CD that gets things rolling.
- And six secret clues you reveal throughout the party.
*Available to buy from UK Amazon or US Amazon.
3. The Chicago Caper
From: Decipher.
Description: It is September 1928 in Chicago. The return of notorious gangster Harold “Hal” Coppone is expected to trigger a wave of violence. Instead, Coppone has disappeared, mystifying police and the criminal underworld. To the small group gathered in a speakeasy near Coppone’s headquarters, the crimelord’s whereabouts become only part of the mystery when murder is discovered. There’s no shortage of suspects, motives, speakeasy glamour or gorgeous flappers in this crime tale. [Source: Amazon]
The Chicago Caper – Game Details
This murder mystery dinner party game includes:
- A 1920’s themed mystery dinner party.
- For 8 players.
- Boxed kit includes a CD, menu and costume suggestions.
*Available to buy from UK Amazon or US Amazon.
See also 7 Top Mystery Roaring 20s Party Games. For more 1920s speakeasy themed murder mystery party games kits.
4. The Tragical Mystery Tour
From: Decipher.
Description: Since you happen to be among the tuned-in, tuned-on crowd, you’ve been invited on a cross-country road trip to Beefstock with one of the hippest rock singers of all time. While you’re hanging out at her “love pad,” an explosion rocks the house. The psychedelic bus has been turned to dust with someone on board.
As you assume the role of one of these colorful characters and solve the mystery, you and your seven dinner guests will enjoy hours of suspense and intrigue.
All you need is a sense of humor and a light-hearted approach toward deceit, larceny, sex and murder. How to Host a Murder is so much fun, it’s almost criminal! [Source: Amazon]
The Tragical Mystery Tour – Game Details
This murder mystery dinner party game includes:
- A 1960s themed mystery game. For 8 players. 17 years and up.
- CD with period music and details of the murder, a host guide with instructions.
- 8 guest invitations, player name tags and booklets.
- Sheet of secret clues with a police report, diagram of the crime scene, menu and costume ideas.
*Available to buy from UK Amazon or US Amazon.
You might also like: 4 Cool Sixties Murder Mystery Games!
5. A Feast to Die For
From: Specialty Board Games.
Description: The Lesters were hosting another one of their fabulous dinner parties. The invitation list was smaller than usual. The Lesters, and a few of their special family and friends were just about to sit down to enjoy the elaborate dinner Victoria Lester had prepared. The table was breathtaking. As usual Victoria had outdone herself. The diners toasted with a vintage bottle of red wine and sat down to eat. As the food was being passed around the table, Victoria started to choke and cough. Everyone rushed to her side in time to see her fall face first into her food. She was dead… she had been poisoned. Welcome to an evening of murder!… [Source: Amazon]
A Feast to Die For – Game Details
This murder mystery dinner party game includes:
- A complete party planner with instructions, costume suggestions, tips and an optional dinner menu.
- Invitations and name tags for your guests.
- Character profiles with secret clues and backgrounds for each.
- A CD which re-enacts the sounds of the murder, outlines the plot and the author’s solution to the mystery.
- For 8 guests.
*Available to buy from UK Amazon or US Amazon.
More Amazon Murder Mystery Boxed Games
For more top murder mystery boxed kits for adults on Amazon. You might like:
Hen Night Mystery Dinner Party Kit on Amazon UK.
Best Murder Mystery Dinner Party Games on Amazon UK.
More Top-Rated Murder Mystery Party Games on Amazon UK.
Shadow Over Westongrove Manor, Non-Scripted Party Game.
Flexi-Party’s Murder at the Manor Kit on Amazon for 6 to 14 Players.
Best Escape Room Games
For more top escape room games including games to play on a board, in the real-world, virtually or printables, see my posts listed below:
Top 5 Best Escape Room Board Games.
Mystery at the Stargazer’s Manor (Age 10 and up).
Houdini’s Secret Room Printable Escape Game (Age: 9-13).
Wooka Booka Island Printable Escape Room (Age: 5-8).
The Cursed Dollhouse – 3D Immersive Escape Game (Age: 13+).
Top UK Escape Room Gift Ideas under £50 in Leeds, Derby, Preston.
4 Top Sherlock Holmes Escape Room Puzzle Books.
More Decade Themed Mystery Games
For more murder mystery games. You might also like these decade-themed games:
7 Top Roaring Twenties Party Games.
1930s Murder Mystery Dinner Party Kits.
Forties Themed Dinner Party Games.
6 Top 1950s Murder Mystery Party Games for Adults.
Printable Decade-Themed Party Games for Large Groups.
See also my latest: Decade Party Games round-up posts and reviews.
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awesome post here, keep ’em coming.
i like your blog.
Ive been looking for a 1920s themed party game kit thanks!
Hi, I love mystery parties! I’ve hosted the pasta, passion and pistols murder mystery party kit – it was sooo much fun, everyone had a great time. And it was easy to host too 😀
I’ve been to a party where we played the chicago caper 1920s murder mystery game. everyone got into their roles and it was a reallly fun evening! 🙂
thank u 🙂
good ideas and v. useful thank u
interesting 🙂
v interesting. thx